Knowledge and Truth, Within

The flesh and blood that houses my soul came into being on February 22, 1977. I first believed that Jesus Christ was my savior while attending a Sunday-school class at the First Baptist Church located in Boone, NC. I cannot remember how old I was, but definitely younger than when I was young. I remember seeing myself standing with the Lord beside a beautiful river, under a beautiful sky, and being completely and totally at peace. I remember imagining that He was smiling down at me as we just existed there by the river. I am glad I saw Him on that Sunday morning at that Sunday-school class, for indeed I have come to know that He came to save me and that I would need Him much more than the air I breathe. I am now 33 years old and the experiences, trials, joys, heartaches, accomplishments, failures, triumphs, disasters, and so on and so forth, have blended themselves together into a purer sort of knowledge. I give myself no credit at all for the attainment of this knowledge, for one of the main lessons I have learned is that I am pretty much capable of knowing nothing, especially when it comes to knowledge. That's a funny sentence isn't it; knowing nothing about knowledge. That being said, you could conclude that I should not even be writing these words, but do not forget the Christ that compels me to do so. I am capable of nothing, that is a good lesson learned, but not any more important than the knowledge and belief that Christ is capable of all things. How could I know and believe how capable Jesus is if I am not very capable at being capable of knowledge? For one thing, I am very glad that I can read, even if what I read does not agree with me. For another, I am glad that I can think, even if what I think does not agree with me. I do not think it is as much disagreeing with me, rather a disagreement with the Spirit dwelling within me. I am very glad for these things. The struggles, and pains, and all the other internal groans of this existence are all signals from the Spirit that danger is always lurking around every corner for us. God is inside each and every one of us to the extent we allow Him to be revealed. I use words like God, and Him, and Father, and Lord to describe It, but how insignificant these words are when compared to what God Truly Is. Do you think that God is not a part of each and every struggle we should face here? If one allows one self to realize that the Light came from Light and that that Light will never stop shining and each and every one of us is a part of it whether we believe so or not, then one has already gone Home. Even the most retched of us have it burning within us. God is the Lord of all and Christ relays over and over the knowledge that God Almighty is as much within us as around us or above us. Darkness exists, that is all there is to say about it and how glorious it is that a God of Light would take any time at all to help us humans fend off powers of darkness and despair. Do you not think that God is not the darkness? Do you think that God is not the despair? God is all things and that is a very hard concept for us humans to grasp. God is the good, God is the bad, God is the beautiful. God is the ugly. God is all things and above all things and before all things and it is curious indeed that we have such a horrible time seeing our God within ourselves. Christ warns us of our sleeping and came here precisely for the purpose of waking humanity on earth. He said that we were sleeping and that forces beyond what we are capable of reasoning are in a constant struggle themselves with the true nature of God and that all there is to believe in is Light. If the One before all things is a One of Light, then It will be Light that prevails. If the creator of all things created is a creator of darkness, then light shall cease to be. Jesus Christ, the Nazarene, gave His Life to tell humanity a story about a Father of Light before there was Light. He told us how to begin reaching back to our True Source and that all the Light in all the Heavens is no further away than the very hearts in our chests. We Christians have become so accustomed to believing that there is some sort of separation occurring during mortal life, and that Heaven and hell are yet to come. When you learn that they are already here, you learn to begin setting yourself free. If you look into the world and see hell, and realize that it is real and present, then you can learn to avoid it; and if you learn to avoid it while wearing the flesh, then how will it trap you when you are spirit? It can't. If you look into the world and see Heaven, and realize that it is real and present, then how much more shall you gravitate towards It when given wings to reach It? The world likes making things seem very complicated and confused. Really, it is as simple as a hug and a smile and motion and rest.